Rubénerd!

Just finished watching Dr Phil while doing my C++ (lets face it, Dr Phil isn't exactly something you need to give your 100% attention to get!) and they were discussing whether condoms should be given out in highschools or not.

Heh, reminds me of all the hundreds of mock debates in English classes ;).

Anyway I've always held the view that condoms should be available in schools. I say to people who claim that having condoms in highschool will promote sexual activity and that by teaching abstinence instead will erase these evil thoughts in teenagers' heads... stop being so naive!!!!!! Teenagers are teenagers and will do what teenagers do.

Welcome to the real world.

Interesting article on the sorry state of the music industry today and how all an artist has to do is say hoe or slut to sell a song. Where'd all the Jazz go?

http://www.fradical.com/The_worse_it_gets.htm

Thanks to the wild success of artists like Ludacris, Nelly, Chingy and Beyoncé, for the first time in the 50-year history of the Billboard charts, black artists dominated the top 10 earlier this month, signalling hip-hop's ascent as the driving force in pop music and culture.

The multi-billion dollar hip-hop industry, whose effects are felt across the board from fashion to advertising to slang, is under a lot more scrutiny lately because of its monstrous commercial appeal. It's everywhere. Ludacris, Eminem, Jay-Z and Beyoncé are in movies and plug their own clothing lines while Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera have revamped their pop profiles with the help of hip-hop staples the Neptunes and Redman, and get downright "Dirrty" in videos.

So it's not what's on Billboard's top 10 charts that's amazing these days, but what's actually still in it.

The only problem with this article: it makes the assumption that Hip Hop and Rap are actually music!

Where's Michael Franks when you need him?

Okay, it's time one and for all to silence all those people who claim Windows XP is a great OS and that the only reason it's targeted is because most people use it!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/

These are my favourite bits:

Perhaps the most oft-repeated myth regarding Windows vs. Linux security is the claim that Windows has more incidents of viruses, worms, Trojans and other problems because malicious hackers tend to confine their activities to breaking into the software with the largest installed base. This reasoning is applied to defend Windows and Windows applications.

This reasoning backfires when one considers that Apache is by far the most popular web server software on the Internet. Only 21% run Microsoft's Windows-based IIS. IIS has long been the primary target for worms and other attacks, and these attacks have been largely successful. Yes, worms for Apache have been known to exist, such as the Slapper worm, but Apache worms rarely make headlines because they have such a limited range of effect, and are easily eradicated.

And something regarding the kernel itself and why Windows will inveitably collapse upon itself:

Viruses, Trojans and other malware make it onto Windows desktops for a number of reasons familiar to Windows and foreign to Linux:

• Windows has only recently evolved from a single-user design to a multi-user model
• Windows is monolithic, not modular, by design
• Windows depends too heavily on an RPC model
• Windows focuses on its familiar graphical desktop interface